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Translators - ehh. I don't speak any other languages so I have no basis for comparison.
But closed-caption writers for TV shows.... all of the fucking rage.
I have some audio-processing issues meaning that closed-captions make life vastly easier, but I'm not actually hard of hearing per se.
Why do they always dumb down the dialogue? I can understand abridging rapid-fire chatter if there's just too much to fit on screen, or not enough time to read it, but they'll dumb down a six-word sentence with ten seconds of on-screen time.
You know hard of hearing people aren't fucking stupid, right? If I did lose my hearing and I were denied the actual writing as written by real writers, in favour of the rough gist supplied by some glorified typist, I would be absolutely goddamn livid. How dare they assume I'm semi-literate just becasue my hearing is crap?
I think I read once that was due to outdated standards related to low resolution television sets. If too much text was on screen at once you couldn't make it out on a standard definition TV. They kept doing it that way for a while after HD became ubiquitous just because that's how they always did it.
I share your frustration though